The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data related to education in the United States and other nations. The center's activities are designed to address high-priority education data needs; provide consistent, reliable, complete, and accurate indicators of education status and trends; and report timely, useful, and high-quality data. This document is the first of a series of annual indices to NCES Issue Briefs. Issue Briefs are short-format publications that present information on education topics of current interest. The index includes all Issue Briefs currently available from the first edition in 1992 through June 1996. Subject areas include race/ethnicity; teachers, administrators, and teaching issues; schools and schooling; student characteristics, course taking, and aspirations; educational outcomes; and international assessments. (LMI)